There will be a huge economy-related change in SwimFactory for the next seasons.

As you know, this game is free to play, but we need some money to go on. Until now, we were accepting donations, and giving some minor benefits to people donating. We’re no longer doing this.

We will try to maintain the game without this support feature. We want to make it accessible to anyone! Donations in the future will be possible to make, but it’s lo longer giving extra-benefits. It’s very easy to continue maintaining the game with a few money (about 100€/150$ a year could be enough).

If you want to support this initiative, you can register at these two pages below. For those who doesn’t know what I’m talking about: you will earn money by receiving and reading emails. It works, and has been maintaining this game online all this years.

These are the links (for those who haven’t registered yet):







Thanks to all of you who have been making this game possible. "You all everybody".

Due to some technical maintenance, the main name of SwimFactory (www.swimfactory.org) will not be shown as it should in the navigation bar, but you will still being in our website.

Please, do not store this address as bookmark, as it will be deactivated soon. You should keep entering from www.swimfactory.org.

This is the reason of tonight’s downtime.

This will be fixed as soon as the DNS are propagated successfully.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Como todos sabéis, intento que el juego sea totalmente gratuíto.
Sin embargo, tengo gastos que afrontar de servidor, como seguro también sabéis.

Nunca pretenderé que nadie pague por jugar, ni nada parecido.
Pronto quitaré la publicidad de la página, porque a todos nos molesta (a mí el primero, deformando por completo el estilo de la página).

Bueno, a parte de esto, lo que sí querría es que me hiciérais un favor. Es una manera de ganar dinero por publicidad, que sí me está resultando:




Con lo que llevo ganado, me da por lo menos para pagar la mitad del servidor, y con lo que los supporters me están donando, consigo aguantar ahí.

No pido nada más, sólo que aquellos que no conozcan el sistema de publicidad que había anunciado hace meses, que se registren y lean los correos de publicidad que le llegan.

Para los que no lo sepan, es algo totalmente legal, y genera resultados (esta vez, lo digo desde mi propia experiencia...).

Os recomiendo reunir referidos, de la misma manera que hago yo. Ganaréis mucho más dinero.

Así, no sólo podré mantener el juego, sino que también ganaréis dinero vosotros.

¡Muchas gracias!

Due to the high number of emails and messages I’ve received asking for the game to continue without this 3-month stop, the game is not stopping.

So, you can delete the message below from your minds, as the game IS NOT going to be closed.

I have to say that it was a very difficult decission, but I’m glad to know that so many people like the game as it is right now. I’m a bit more motivated, and also more creative, so this could be a good time to make huge improvements. ;)

After 3 years of game, SwimFactory is going to close for a quite long time, about 3 months.

At the end of this season, after the promotion competitions take place, there will be no next season. The game is going to be frozen, and will come back with more functionalities and more attractive.

There will be a forum where we could keep in touch, and talk about new functionalities.

The game will be officially presented in September in the "Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática de Ourense", and that’s the reason of this little break, so we expect to come back that month. We will announce it via email, so check if you have a valid email address in the section "My Account" of the game.

We will use this break to migrate to a more powerful server, according to the game needings.

Thanks for being there playing all this time, and remember that we will come back. :)

Yes, here it is, the 8th season of SwimFactory!

With no significative modifications, but here you are a few ones:

• Final season incomings have been duplicated. The new quantities are going to be shown in the Help section.
  


• The help section is going to be updated a lot. We’re trying to solve the critical error that cause Internet Explorer 5.0 to crash when you open the help section.
  


• I think that National Teams it’s right now a high priority, as it seems that there are no bugs right now (I’m sure there is something bugged, but it’s not being shown and it’s not critical).
  


• There will be a huge internal modification in the database section, that could cause some new bugs to appear, but it’s a great modification that will make the application much more secure, using a PDO encapsulation.
  

Maybe the hugest change you could see is the one about National Teams, but it’s not. :P

I prefer to do this things more slowly and better.